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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER VII
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He left the office now.
"Is it possible that you trust that crazy creature with the key of your desk ?" said Mr.Keller.

"Even your bitterest enemy, Mrs.Wagner, would not believe you could be guilty of such an act of rashness." "Pardon me, sir, it is you who are guilty of an act of rashness in forming your judgment.

'Fancy a woman in her senses trusting her keys to a man who was once in Bedlam!' Everybody said that of me, when I put Jack to the proof in my own house." "Aha! there are other people then who agree with me ?" said Mr.Keller.
"There are other people, sir (I say it with all needful respect), who know no more of the subject than you do.

The most certain curative influence that can be exercised over the poor martyrs of the madhouse, is to appeal to their self-respect.

From first to last, Jack has never been unworthy of the trust that I have placed in him.


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